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Its story

In the modest Caelum, the celestial engraver's chisel, a K-type orange star shines about 642 light years away. Its light departed around 1384, while Europe was emerging painfully from the Black Death and the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula were accumulating centuries of Reconquista. Cooler than the Sun and bathed in an amber tone, it embodies the silence of stars that have begun to leave youth behind. The constellation, one of the smallest in the sky, was sketched by Lacaille in the eighteenth century as a tool for celestial workshops.